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WHAT IS ASSOCIATIONAL DISCRIMINATION?

JayS.Rothman&Associates

Protected Class Associational discrimination cases can be brought under various laws. This means that employees cannot suffer adverse actions simply because someone they associate with engaged in legally-protected activity, such as blowing the whistle. Employees who do suffer such actions may have a legal cause of action.

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New rules on service outside Australia for the Federal Court of Australia

Conflict of Laws

Leave to serve turned on three conditions: the court had subject matter jurisdiction, the claim was of a kind mentioned in the rules, and the party had a prima facie case for any or all of the relief claimed: FCR r 10.43(4). That rule set out pigeonholes or connecting factors that are familiar grounds of direct jurisdiction.

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